FINMA Grants Approval to Bitcoin Exchange ECUREX
Swiss-based cryptocurrency exchange platform ECUREX has announced via a press release that it has become the first such bitcoin exchange to be fully compliant with the Swiss Banking Act. The Swiss regulator, Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) released a letter after conducting an investigation which ran for sixteen months, stating that ECUREX's business model is compliant with the Swiss Banking Act. ECUREX has another prestigious achievement to its name; it is also the first bitcoin exchange compliant with the Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Act since April last year. These are....
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ECUREX GmbH, a Zurich, Switzerland-based digital finance marketplace for traders and financial institutions, has become the first digital currency exchange platform to be fully compliant with the Swiss Banking Act. The ECUREX trading system is not yet operating, but the team announced that this is its next objective. The team has scheduled the system's first release. The company reported the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has released an opinion letter stating that ECUREX's business model is compliant with the Swiss Banking Act. FINMA released the letter following 16....
Xapo, a prominent Bitcoin wallet platform and solutions provider successfully obtained a conditional approval from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, hereinafter FINMA, this week. The approval of FINMA to financial service providers in Switzerland is equivalent to that of BitLicense to the New York-based Bitcoin exchange. Companies willing to engage in the Swiss financial market are required to be authorized by FINMA in order to provide financial service in the country. While there are many types of authorizations granted by FINMA, the most common set of approval is the....
Today ECUREX, a digital finance marketplace for professional traders and financial institutions headquartered in Zurich, is publishing a comprehensive 110-page report on digital currencies - an ECUREX Research Working Paper titled "Digital Currencies: Principles, Trends, Opportunities, and Risks." In June, Bitcoin Magazine reported that ECUREX was the first digital currency exchange platform to be fully compliant with the Swiss Banking Act and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Ordinance. Now, with the permission of ECUREX, Bitcoin Magazine is publishing some excerpts of the new report before....
Bitcoin wallet company Xapo announced today that it has received an early nod of approval from a key Swiss regulator. The Switzerland-based company said in a new blog post that it has been given “conditional approval” from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to do business in the European country. The approval isn’t final, however, as Xapo said the regulator wants to see it join a self-regulatory organization (SRO), among other steps. Xapo relocated to Switzerland in mid-2015, citing customer privacy concerns at the time as it looked to shift away from its operations....
Switzerland is often thought of as a Bitcoin-friendly country. The Canton of Zug, for example, is sometimes called the crypto capital of the world and many Bitcoin service startups are located there, including Xapo, Shapeshift, Ethereum, Monetas, and Bitcoin Suisse. Companies wanting to do business in Switzerland need an approval by the Swiss Financial....